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For which the speech of England has no name. 



Man hath no part in all this glorious work, 



The hand that built the tirmament hath heaved 



And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes 



With herbage, planted them with island groves 



And hedged them round with forests." 



No one who has not seen them, can have an idea of the 

 prairies, and I am quite sure I can find no means of giving 

 anything like an idea of them, so I shall attempt it no more. 



Here the autumnal butterflies were still numerous, and there 

 were a great many moths attracted by the lamps, during the 

 warmer evenings. 



Leaving our Illinois friends, we proceeded to St. Louis, 

 the spot where first the French settled on the banks of the 

 " Father of Waters," and thence to Alton, on the same river, 

 about eighteen miles north of St. Louis. We had but two 

 or three days to collect here, but I was rewarded by finding 

 one butterfly, never before found, I believe, in the United 

 States. 



We now travelled onwards to Chicago, and thence to 

 Green Bay and Mackinaw, and back to New York, a journey 

 highly interesting, but which, from the season, and other 

 causes, produced us but little in the way of Entomology. 

 From New York we started for the south in November, 

 merely staying a few days in the various cities we passed 

 through, until at length we came to an anchor for about six 

 months at St. John's Bluff", East Florida, which place I must 

 now try to give an idea of. 



(To he continued.) 



Art. III. — Observations upon the Affinities and Analogies of Or- 

 ganized Beings. By Hugh E. Strickland, Esq., F.G.S. 



I HAVE read with much interest the paper by Mr. Westwood, 

 at page 141, on affinity and analogy. The writings of this 

 gentleman are distinguished no less for scientific accuracy 

 than for a spirit of sound philosophy, untainted by those 

 visionary and theoretical views entertained by some of our 

 modem zoologists. Instead of assuming an a priori system 

 of his own, and then twisting facts into a partial coincidence 

 with that system, he is content to take Nature as he finds 

 her, and not the less to admire her luxuriant variety because 

 she refuses to marshal her irregular troops into straight lines, 



